Verdun Le Brave
Examiner of Plays' Summary:
As might be guessed from its title this is a very typical sketch of the moment. In a preliminary conversation between Britannia, France, and her daughter Verdun, the former expresses her determination to help the two latter out of their trouble. There follows the establishment of an entente cordiale between a small English boy and a small French one: and the symbolic trifle winds up with the alliance of an English and a French flower-girl who with their red, white and blue blooms, unite in contemptuous rivalry with a neutral flower-seller whose lack of human sympathy they despise. The dialogue, half in English and half in French, points a wholesome if not very dramatic moral. Recommended for license. Ernest A. Bendall
Licensed On: 12 Jul 1916
License Number: 338
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British Library Reference: LCP1916/16
British Library Classmark: Add MS 66137 H
Performances
| Date | Theatre | Type | |
|---|---|---|---|
| 25 Jul 1916 | Ambassadors, London | Unknown | Licensed Performance |
| 25 Jul 1916 | Ambassadors, London | Unknown |
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Lady Quill's Gossip. Mr Marconi looking very well and in good spirits was at the Verdun matinee at the Ambassadors, and applauded vigorously an excellent little sketch written by Comte Gaston de Ravenal and Dr. Campbell McClure. It was called "Verdun le Brave," and it made one think in the way that brings a choking in the throat and a mistiness to the eyes. The proceeds of the matinee are to be sent to General de Castelnau to buy comforts for his men, those brave men who have held out against Germany's most frantic efforts to batter them to defeat. Vive Verdun. (Weekly Dispatch (London) Sunday 30 July 1916)
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